We end this first week of January 2021, longing for something different that we witnessed and experienced in 2020. We desire something new, to be newness and bring newness in and through our shared lives in Jesus. Today, and for this next week, we pray together to be a witness to what we long for, doing so through these words adapted from Ernest Campbell.
We pray, heavenly Father, for Christ City Church, bearing as individuals and as a faith family the marks of a culture that is too much with us. So…
…tune our responses to human need that we may reflect your Spirit rather than the spirit of the age.
…deliver us from want and hypocrisy that our yes may be yes and our no no.
…free us from the need to justify ourselves that others may be at ease in our presence, and our own hearts at peace.
Bless this faith family with your loving-kindness, that here on this hill that cannot be hid we may continue to raise a consistent, costly, and contagious witness to the truth that sets us free.
All of this we pray in faith and with thanksgiving through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.